Improving health care safety and quality [[electronic resource] ] : reluctant regulators / / by Judith Healy

• Autore: Healy Judith
• Pubblicazione: Surrey, U.K. ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.15/56
• Soggetto topico: Medical care - Law and legislation; Medical care - Evaluation; Medical care - Safety measures; Health facilities - Safety measures
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Why regulate? -- How safe is health care? -- Regulatory actors : who governs health care? -- Regulating the health professions -- Safety cultures and safety systems -- Regulating staff : internal management -- Regulating organizations : external reviews -- Regulation by enforcement : laws, money, and monitoring -- Regulation by patients -- Responsive regulation : trust and transparency.
• Sommario/riassunto: Responding to the alarm caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analyzing the health care systems of over a dozen countries and examines whether greater regulation has increased patient safety and health care quality. It will be of key interest to government actors, health care professionals and medico-legal scholars.
• Titolo autorizzato: Improving health care safety and quality
• ISBN: 1-317-11821-9; 1-317-11820-0; 1-283-01505-6; 9786613015051; 0-7546-7645-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458204903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Law, ethics and governance.